If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is hell.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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War is hell.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN